pRICE's thread on the most beautiful Mac tower got me thinking about my Mac lineage. I hardly remember what I had and when I had it, but thinking back from current, I came up with the following list. I'm sure I'm forgetting something in the middle era.

also owned an original C2D MBA (hated it) and 2012 i7 for a short time

TV computer: 2011 mini i5, 2012 Mac Mini i5, 2014 Mini i5

there... that's the last time I do this. For a while there I was learning ebay while replacing my computers for profit once or twice a year. But I've lost the need to be on the cutting edge - my computers are just tools now.

Apple IIe damn well better count. I bought one new in 1982. Used that machine and a Okidata printer to assemble my business tax documents for 18 years. Great machine. Turned it and the Power Center in for recycling in 2008.

1999 - used Power Center 150
2002 - new G4 Quicksilver
2006 - new MacBook - gave to daughter -recently told it has a graphics problem
2007 - new iMac C2D 2.8 (wife's retirement gift). -Still using this with El Capitan & new SSD
2009 mini - gave to same daughter in 2012 - suddenly all of my Windows problems disappeared.
2011 MBP 15" i7 -still using this
2012 mini - now at winter home
2014 mini - wife now using this when 2007 HD died.
2015 5K iMac - refurb'd in 2017

Also bought new:

2015 MBP for grandson
2016 MacBook Air for granddaughter
2017 MacBook Air for another grandson

No kidding on that Coleco. I got through a few years of college using its daisy-wheel printer and crappy word processing software.

After it went belly-up, I tried using the Commodore 128 but printing was near impossible. So I got a hold of a surplus IBM Selectric (sp?) for manual typing and eventually bought a Smith Corona PWP-3 after my Dad's company needed the typewriter back.

That Smith Corona was a monster but it was portable for the era, and got me through the rest of college.

Mac SE Dual 800k First Mac bought it in college.
Powerbook100 Got the Price Club deal on that one when they were having the firesale
Duo 210/230/2300 I loved being able to dock up!
MB Air Early 2015 with Henge Dock It is almost like having my old Duo back!

C64
MacSE (built from the scrapheap from parts from 4 different machines)
MacII (built from a nicer scrapheap!) - traded in for a IIfx for a friend.
Mac IIci
PowerComputing Tower and PowerBook 190 (desktop/mobile combo).
Lombard (replacing the worthless PB190)
Replaced Lombard with the Apple Pismo tradein for the PowerBook 190 - best deal ever. Lombard moved on to wife. PowerComputing Tower ended up on the shelf; Pismo was main machine.
Replaced Pismo with TiPB (terrible build quality) - wife inherited Pismo (which she loved)
TiPB failed (hinge and screen); replaced with PB17 (one of my favorite Macs of all time). PB17 went to a 6'6" colleague - he loved a machine that fit on his lap!
MBP15 (original)- machine is still in daily use. Ran super hot! Not a good laptop... Did I say it's still in daily use (just not as a mobile machine).
MBP15 (Santa Rose) - used for years, first SSD machine. Ended up with 3 Mobo failures; last beyond Apple extended warranty. Parted out. Replaced battery at least 3 times.
MBPR15 (first gen) - on 3rd Mobo but is working. Still used daily but not as main machine.
MBPR13 (2016) - current main machine.

PowerMac 6100/60 - (recycled)
- Topped off to 72MB RAM, and eventually got a 240MHz G3 in there but there was not much else you could do with that box.

PowerMac G3 Desktop 266 (recycled)
- Upgraded out the nose, in the end it had a G4/400, 768MB RAM, Firewire 400/USB card, 10/100 Ethernet card, and an ATI xClaim VR 128 video capture card w/TV tuner! Not to mention as many hard drives as I could stuff in the case after swapping in the rev. C ROM chip from a newer G3 tower.

PowerMac G3 Desktop (recycled)
- bought used as a second mac for my girlfriend

Macintosh LCII (scrapped)
- Got that for free, was fun to play Mario Teaches typing on.

Macintosh Plus (maybe an SE ?) got it for free from a family friend, with the Apache Strike game still working in the disc drive! It's all sitting in the box at my parents house.

PowerMac G5 dual 2.0 (only mac I have ever sold)
- Had it up to 3.5GB RAM if I recall correctly

iMac G3/266 - Tangerine (recycled)
- brought back from the dead using spare parts from the computer store I worked at, gave it to my Sister to use

iMac G3/400 - Blue (recycled)
- brought back from the dead using spare parts from the computer store I worked at, gave it to my Dad to use

PowerBook 520 (recycled)
- Got this one for free and used it as a software router with IPNetRouter for our DSL connection. Just got rid of it last month.

My latest computer at home is a Hackintosh, so not really a Mac. I use my work computers more than it though.
MacPro early 2009 (dual quadcore 2.26)
and
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)

We're going to other computers ?
I think the first one I used was a Control Data mainframe at Amherst College in 1966. I was 7. It was super cool !

Then an HP mainframe at the local High school district.. learned BASIC in 1971. For my final project I wrote a flight simulator. Learned the physics around flight so I could code it all, none of this "Import flight library" crap.

After that accessing the mainframe at the local community college to play Star trek on a KSR-33 teletype.... Photon Torpedo !

A Data General minicomputer at McDonnel Douglass. It would reset if you touched the case with static built up on your body... classic bad EMI design.

Then my first 'personal computer', a home built 6800 processor computer in 1974 with 1 KBits of RAM, baby. I mowed SO many lawns to pay for that. Programmed with switches and the output was blinking lights and data to an RS232 interface. The whole board was wire-wrapped, and... I read the print wrong and wire-wrapped it backwards for 10 hours. I then had to pull the whole thing apart and redo it. Woof. All part of a BSA Explorer Computer Engineering post at McDonnell Douglas. Lots of assembler... push and pop on the stack...Unfortunately the power supply I built (hand traced PCB ) b0rked and fried the whole thing a few weeks after I got it running. Which was sad, because by then I was trying to get up enough money to buy a terminal to connect to the beast.

Then access to the largest IBM 370 system on the planet at McDonnell Douglas as part of a BSA explorer post. Except.... we, um, wrote FORTRAN IV and IBM JCL code to run prime numbers and forgot to limit runtime and resource uses. It sucked up an entire 8 hours of run time back when they billed $$$ for processor time. Our advisor got fired and a couple of the boys were arrested. I wasn't there that day, so I didn't get busted.

Then I wrote a bunch of front end BASIC code for the St Louis Children's Science museum on their little HP mini computers to control how long kids could run game programs like Hunt the Wumpus and Adventure. They loved me for that.

Then the IBM 370 system at Mizzou and a PDP-11 at Mizzou. Running lots of FORTRAN IV code to analyze brain CT scans for cancerous structures. I.. um.. crashed the system by using up all the RAM. oops. Also had a side business using the imaging system in the lab to scan in photos and print them on the big chain printer. Poster of your girlfriend ? $10. Paid for a lot of beer that summer. I used some hacking JCL code to steal accounts from some professors because everyone was limited to processing time, and didn't get busted until the summer NSF program was over. The advisor just laughed, and handed me the 'best scam' award.

After that the Honeywell mainframe at SLU.. I did a bit of coding in FORTRAN for Prof Mesarovic's Club of Rome study.. Limits of Growth and all that.

Then College where I ran into a lot of systems... too many. Learned to write ALGOL, PASCAL, APL (which was very weird), COBOL, lots of FORTRAN 77, lots of assembler.

Then work, I used a lot of systems. One little guy that ran CPM (DOS precursor). Z80 boards built into radar systems and the like. DEC's and VAX systems. Lots of assembler and real time stuff. Then IBM systems, etc...

There were also a lot of PC's in the mix as well over the years. So many...

I've had a few others as secondary machines (including the one I'm typing on now, 2011 2.3 i5 Mini) but there are too many to list here as many of these were hand me downs when they became too old for the original owners.

I didn't have an 840AV, but did have a 660AV. It's 25 years old this year, and plugged it in a few months ago. It worked for about an hour. I tried it the next day and it wouldn't boot off the internal drive. I popped the cover and noticed leaky capacitors - so it's waiting to be recapped.

512k Mac
- Got in graduate school with student discount. Idiot school IT department stamped the top of it with a branding iron "Property of (university) until:" then used a scriber to scrawl in a date. I suppose intended to discourage students from selling. External drive got upgraded to 1.2 MB, but the internal is still 800 KB. Not sure why I didn't upgrade it to a Mac Plus, which was an option at one point.

Performa 476
- Same as Quadra 605, but came with a monitor and a bunch of consumer software. Got a lot of work done on that Mac. Had two, one at work, and one at home.

PowerBook 180
- It ran on 12v, and I rigged up two 4-cell D battery holders and a plug, inside of a zippered nylon bag, to use on airplanes. Probably would drive TSA nuts today. Solid machine.

Beige G3 Desktop, 266 MHz
- Overclocked it to 300 MHz. Pretty sure I added a USB card and a FireWire card. Sort of a jack of all trades, as it did both SCSI and ATA/IDE interfaces, had ADB for the keyboard and mouse, and Apple Serial, but could support USB and FireWire via the add on cards. My older kids remember playing all sorts of games on this, especially the Pajama Sam games. Also had two of these, one at work and one at home.

PowerBook Duo 2300c with Dock (bought used)
- Thing was so slow that I didn't use it much. But the dock was way cool.

Indigo G3 iMac, 500 MHz
- This was really my wife's and the family computer. Still great looking.

iBook G3, 500 MHz
- One of my favorite Macs of all time. This had the early translucent white, vs. the later solid white color. Used these to upgrade Orinoco Silver WiFi cards to Gold, as the Apple AirPort card was an Orinoco card with the antenna cut off.

PowerBook G4, 500 MHz, 15" "TiBook"
- Hinges broke eventually, as they all did, then I think the logic board died. Only Mac I've driven into the ground. Was using it with a PC Card WiFi card as they had lousy WiFi antennas.

G4 Cube, 450 MHz
- Upgraded to 1.7 GHz and flashed PC video card. Still hope to set this up again.

iMac G4, 1 GHz, 15"
- Wife won this at an a new OS party at the local Apple Store, which must have been for either 10.2 or 10.3. Think I replaced the CD/DVD drive. Still have a memory stick I didn't install because you had to almost totally disassemble the machine to get to the last slot. Required a "carrier" to accept an AirPort card.

PowerBook G4, 1.5 GHz, 12"
- Hand me down from my mother when she got an iMac. My favorite Mac of all time. Still making keying mistakes on the Unibody MacBook Pros that I didn't on the PowerBook's great keyboard. Upgraded with an OWC SSD, which made it MUCH faster. Couldn't get a decent replacement battery, however. Only stopped using it when the TenFourFox web browser got too slow.

Lest anyone think the family now only lives on hand me downs, my wife and kids have MacBook Airs, and the wife has a nice 21" iMac, all bought new. But, hey, I'm happy with an upgradeable 8 year old Mac!